Mostly, people associate their homes, their living space with something private, personal, something that should bring you calmness and relaxation, because home is the place, where you spend most of your time, so you must be absolutely comfortable in there.
Actually, craziness of Italian designers of 60’s is talking about our living spaces in absolutely different way. They were fighting with the perfect geometry of modernism, showing provocative avant-garde ideas for a living space, not calm and relaxed ones, which people are used to, but new, crazy and extremely unusual. They did not want to think about good design, they went against it. Here on pictures you can see some furniture objects by Superstudio and Archizoom Associati. All of these objects are really strange from the first sight. Even the colours and materials give really crazy outlook, which does not gives comfortable, cozy atmosphere to these pieces.
Tastes differ, but as for me, I do not feel none of this objects to be useful. Take a look at the lamp «Gherpe», designed by Superstudio, on the picture 1. It looks quite pretty, it is done in the shape of the Nautilus shell, but I do not feel that this red plastic around it will give a nice light to the home atmosphere, it will be a bit disturbing to have this supportive red light all the time. Maybe it could be nice for a party, or for special evenings, but for everyday life this kind of light could be really disturbing.
Picture 1. Lamp «Gherpe»,by Superstudio
Also, if you take a look at the sofa «Superonda», on picture 2, designed by Archizoom Associati, you maybe will not understand that it is a sofa from the first sight, because it looks a bit curvy, with strict edges and it seems that it is done of plastic, because of its glossy look, which is absolutely not cozy material for the living space. In fact it is done not out of plastic, it is soft. Moreover, this sofa is modular, you can have many pieces of it, connected and you can create different layers and sizes of sofas. This is a good thing, which I like about this sofa, because when you have small apartment, but you have many people coming over, you can keep pieces of sofa in the wardrobe, or somewhere else, and just take them away in the right moment and model by yourself a perfect sofa for special occasion. So it is like you are the one who decides, how your space will look like, you have freedom to change your space. I like the fact that space adjusts to you, not you to the space.
Picture 2. Sofa «Superonda», by Archizoom Associati
If you take a look at the picture 3, you can see the armchair «Joe», which is designed by D’Urbino, De Pas and Lomazzi, in the shape of big baseball glove. This armchair looks really massive and in my opinion not comfortable at all, but it is nice play of scale, it is quite interesting how big could be this small object, and actually, by making it so big, they gave it much more importance, than it actually has, being in its usual scale. Probably, the designers wanted just to confront the established forms, shapes and traditional norms in order to create a masterpiece, which will be absolutely new, different and not under the common rules.
Picture 3. Armchair «Joe», by D’Urbino, De Pas and Lomazzi
Overall, of course it depends on taste, whether you like these Radical furniture pieces, or not, but in my opinion they are made more with the idea of decor, rather than a design, because design is something more than just a random flow of creative ideas, it is absolutely thoughtful decisions, something which makes peoples life better and easier’s, design must be practical and beautiful at the same time, but really important is that design must work for human, not just being near the human to create a nice atmosphere.
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